E642 Nordic Holstein Coancestry Rose Twentyfold. Your Inbreeding Percentage Won’t Show You.
Seven of the top ten August 2026 GTPI sires share one father. While herdbook mating reports look stable, underlying genetic diversity is collapsing.On The Bullvine Podcast, we break down why pedigree ...
1 Sep 31min
E641 94.3% of Trough Samples Had Coliforms. Your Wellhead Test Won’t Show It
Your wellhead tested clean, but 94.3% of troughs carry coliforms. Biofilm lines the pipe, cutting cow intake and costing real milk.When somatic cell count creeps up, farms swap liners and culture cows...
31 Aug 41min
E640 One Ring, Three Dynasties: The 1989 World Dairy Expo Class That Rewrote Holstein History
Winnie, Laurie Sheik, and Ada walked into Madison's Coliseum in 1989 as young heifers. What followed rewrote global pedigrees. In October 1989 at World Dairy Expo, Judge Howard Binder sorted a Senior ...
29 Aug 44min
E639 The Access Fight Is Worth 5¢. Class III Already Took 64¢.
The Canadian dairy access dispute is worth 5 cents per cwt. Real Class III market swings already cost four times more than the entire trade battle.The Bullvine Podcast cuts through trade-war headlines...
28 Aug 11min
E638 Rumination Drops Five Days Early. The Payback Takes Six Years.
Her rumination dropped five days before diagnosis, but paying off the hardware takes six years on health alone.On The Bullvine Podcast, we break down the real economics of precision dairy monitoring. ...
27 Aug 24min
E637 The Real Price of World Dairy Expo: $3,800 a Cow, Ten Days, and What Nobody Writes Down
Hauling a five-cow string to Madison costs $3,800 per cow. Expo charges just $280 of it. The other 93% is the cost nobody writes down.On this edition of The Bullvine Podcast, we break down the kitchen...
25 Aug 30min
E636 That cull cow brings $2,340. Her replacement costs $3,500.
Cashing a $2,340 cull check today leaves an immediate $1,160 hole when replacement heifers cost $3,500-plus in the tightest inventory since 1978.On this edition of The Bullvine Podcast, we break down ...
24 Aug 19min
E635 500,000 Gallons a Day: A Ceiling to the City, a Floor to Its Challengers
A judge tossed the challenge on standing, not hydrology. The numbers on the record reveal exactly what your next dairy expansion will have to prove.North Dakota approved up to 500,000 gallons daily of...
21 Aug 22min
